General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 123, 14 March 1901, Page 2

General News.

Tenders are invited for supplies of groceries and various other articles tp the , Waimute Hospital. Tenders i dose on March 21st, ThefTim/ire Borough Oonnei! have decided to recouimmcfi the war on ?at« f ftnd they nre agiin prepared to pm vermin at Id per head. - Mr Speckle*, in a interview at Sydney, said lh.it be fully inters to enter ijoidiy,,. upoMhe duvolfl-pwent, of\a '* 5:"

The King has appointed Lord,Hop jtoun a Privy Council! ofc. The Kaiser has decorated Sir Robert Hart in recognition of--his services in opening up trade id China. Briggs, the' well-known English cricketer, had a serious relapse and has been removed to an asylum. The absence of so many troops in South Africa and China saves Indian 36 lakhs of rupees during the current year. The Synod of the Russian Church hss excommunicated Count Luo Tolstoi, owing to his anti Christum teachings. A serious fire occurred at r'ommrvndel on*Tuesday morning resulting in the destruction of iivn shops. The loss is estimated at £2OOO, The Rev. S. Burnett, late of Wa.'mate, has been appointed to the Kangiora circuit by the Wesleyan Conference. The Rev. J. Blight continues at Wannate.

The Titmtru Harbour Board on Tuesday increased the salary of their secretary. Mr W. J. Te.ment by £2o a year, his salary now being £o2o per annum.

,V poll on the proposal to borrow jj?3o 000 for the purpose of buying the gasworks by the borough of Wanganui was taken on Monday, and carried by 90 to 1. A Waihgongoro (Poverty Bay) fanner possesses a five-year-old slier p that turns the scale at 207 m, and record for wool clip for the past thive years is 211 b, 191 b and 171 b. Over 13 inches of rain have fallen at Oyiupie. Queensland. The M iry River is in high Hood, threatening Bubioerge the mines. Gangs o. men ure watching. An early opportunity will be taken of re-swearing Privy Councillors nEngland. The King has auth.uTsetl the Duke of York to hold a Uuunci, and re swear the Australian b-h' Councillors.

In connection with the question ol management of the water ratms u. th.water districts of the Wannate Couui.v public meetings will be held at tit. Andrews on March 19th auc. Glenai \ on March 22ud. In our advertising columns will be seen a preliminary announcement w the. annual concert- of St. Patrick s School. The drawing for prizes m the carnival art union will take place the same evening.

A dockers’ strike has been in opera tiou at Marseilles, France, for a fori ",if r ht. The crews ot vessels and c.elkare unloading packages from the ships Troops are guarding the warehouses and docks. A number of warehouseh ive been closed owing to lack of new material.

Visitors to the Geyser Hotel. Tiotorua, were alarmed by au outbreak of fire ou Tuesday night. The flame? were extinguished without ?,-rious dauuige. Tins is the third incipient fire , recently, and incendiarism is suspected.

A cable from Sydney says;— Math a •view to checking the men working on now railways f*m> squandering money the States Minister ot Woik.-. has proposed to stop 2s per day out o the wages of all employees, and baud it oyer to them when they leave the work.

The export of meat from the colony dr.rin“ Fvbrup.ry shows a striking m ■ crease in mutton and lamffi Motion : in 1901. The lamb export has increased from £51.580 to £lO-1019. The booth Canterbury Acchm itha tion Society gives notice that me following New Zealand buds au protected .-Kaha, P'^uki„ ( j " ,,unp hensh .uid native pigeons, aim shooting sensor, will will open on May 1 c .-,l on July o'l- - laid before the Wesleyan Commence show ihat there are 29/ ,h arc hes with 419 other pruning o l<4 . po-2 ministers and 535 local Ap, s " 2257 Sunday school fr.'ch-W.’ ’and 70.402 attendants in ■;Uce.s of public worship in the Wesr,n Church in Now Zeaumd. Tito Federation CoiuinUsioa left Auckland for Sydney by the Maratoa --Tuesday.' A hundred and eig'uy d've witnesses have been examined in Kew Zealand, of whom a coostdeiaole laujoritv are against federation. One 1,0 and twelve were against federation and. 50 for, the remainder being indefinite. It. is reported that one of native officers of the Bengal Lancets expressed his astonishment when informed that Mr Seddon was/ the Prime Minister of New Zealand. Hi thought he was somebody . hired by the Government to go about , with t ie visitors and give the same old jabba bibber everywhere., * Two aborigines, Banjo and Bti]ah, who have been arrested, confessed to the murder of Mr Barack near Forth. According to their confession. Banjo placed a rifle close to Durack s head Shile he was asleep, andsho » him dead. Rajah undertook to kll the son, but only succeeded in wounding )hn. The object of the crime was robbery. The workmen engaged in q at the Timnru Harbour Board s Oupua l«ry uLearthed » nest of inter......* curios 5 on Monday, when tha '' a Zenstono chisel. a motion fish shell and a piece of whalebone, which had evidently beeji used by the Maoris to serve as a plate'. The articles were all found together, at a depth ch about Bft. below the surface of the soil. His worship the Mayor, op the requisition of* number of business People requests that the usual weekly half boliSy be March iStb; instead of the Ibpisday. As fit. Patrick’s Day falls on Sunday, the Monday is being observed as the holiday throughout .the m nianes where special gathem gs are Son that date. In Waimale the annual race meeting takes piaee, followed in the evening by a concert given by St. Patrick a School. Mr Hales, Engineer-in-Chief, and Mr Vickerinan, District Engineer, visited the tunnel at Kawngohake inspected the works, where the . SS earned between 4s and’Jis . S; As a 'result, the men have 1 to i!0 fcaik .40 »Ofk »J4fe .

the assurance that they will bis trealEe'd' fairly. Mr Vickerman states-, that the'rate paid was rather low, but some of the men bad been loafing in a net barefrOM Wry, and the Government will not pay for such loafing. The government, he Says, desires 10 deal fairly with the but the men mustco operate with those responsible to the Government otherwise the present system could not be miiuUmod. The men have decided to go back to work at once.